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That date marks when alternate-side street sweeping-related parking restrictions go back into effect after the winter season, though the city gives us a week to get used to it again before issuing $30 tickets: those won't start until March 30.
The resumption of street sweeping comes with the promise of more tickets this year, however. DPW introduced its "Sweepercam" license plate recognition technology at the end of last summer, and recently reminded residents that it will begin testing it again starting today through Friday, March 27. The next three weeks will be a dry run for the street sweeper cameras, to make sure they are in sync before re-deployment, during which time no parking tickets will be issued. But come March 30, if you're not back in the habit of moving your car from one side of the street to the other once a week, expect the "Sweepercam" to make catching you parked on the wrong side that much easier. The department currently has seven sweepers outfitted with the cameras, with five more expected to be installed by May.
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As one of the people who ALWAYS moves their car on street cleaning days, I'm happy to see more parking tickets.
i've been caught off guard once when i forgot to move my car, but i'm all for the tickets. there are people on my block who would NEVER move their car, and the garbage would just pile up because of that. hopefully they'll get slammed this year if they pull the same thing.
Riiiight. 'Cause you can just totally take a 5-second glance at a car on a city street and tell without a doubt which race its owner is.
My issue w/ the tickets is that the first 2 years I lived in DC I lived on a street that was never cleaned during the two years I lived there but cars were still ticketed for not moving.
I wonder if they're going to have these things on a synchronized clock. On my block the street sweeper usually comes 10-20 minutes early, which doesn't stop the parking enforcement people from writing tickets an hour after that. I always make sure I've moved the car at least a half hour earlier than the signs say. At least I try to do that.
Wow, DC's answer to Google StreetView.
By all means, let's make this all about race...
I bet you're a real popular guy on your street, too.
Popular or not, I've seen the exact same thing. "Old-timers" in the neighborhood often get passed over while "gentrifiers" on the same block get ticketed (as should anyone who violates the law).
You can get pissy about "race" if you like, but you're living in a fantasy world if you don't think public servants in this city treat people differently based on skin color.
In case you missed it...
"Cause you can just totally take a 5-second glance at a car on a city street and tell without a doubt which race its owner is."
I'm sure that there is a "old timers" (code word) and city employee meeting on your block every month, you just miss it.
Don't blame this on other people, trying to find the easy way out. When I look out of the window or walk to my car, everyone has tickets if you are breaking the law.
can we put these cameras on buses too to ticket those in bus lanes... and then add a bunch of bus only lanes?
i'm pretty sure you usually need to move your car twice a week most weeks. If you are in Monday spot and you move it to a Tuesday spot, you will be moving it on Tuesday too. Once in a while you can park in a Thursday spot and then you only have to move it once that next week. But then, the vicious cycle continues.
Can we suspend these cameras over the first and second lanes to take photos of the illegaly parked church parkers on sunday? That will save the DCPD a lot of time.
Seriously. Someone needs to tell those assholes that Jesus would've taken the bus.
FYI, normantown's comments have been removed by me, since I've banned him before under another name.
Show me the money!
Do you guys have a system for remembering when to move your cars? I've been paying the city for probably a ticket every month or so because I never really drive my car and chronically forget to move it in time.
We put a small chalkboard on the back of our door with the day we need to move the car and the location of our car.
It has simply become my Sunday / Monday night ritual.
It has simply become my Sunday / Monday night ritual.
It has simply become my Sunday / Monday night ritual.
i did not click submit 3 times...
Is street sweeping even necessary? I mean, have the streets really been any dirtier since street sweeping was suspended last fall? Has anybody heard any complaints about how filthy the streets are? I haven't.
Depends on how you define "dirt." Metric tons of sand and salt from the snow removal trucks? Yeah, that's "dirt." Chicken bones, human feces, and empty cans of Steel Reserve? That's just "vibrant urban ambience."
I am still angry about the time when I ran out to move my car right before the enforcement lady drove up at sweeping time -- she watched me moved my car and didn't give me a ticket. But a few weeks later a ticket came in the mail. REEEALLY?!?!
Is there a way to convince folks in my neigborhood to not use the street gutters as their own personal garbage can/toilet in the first place?